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I would study finance. I'm in the technical side of an investment fund and the finance guys make way more and do less and also less complicated work.
Problem is success in finance is hard to get into when already mature. You have to plan for it and study it young to end up somewhere with worth it money.
Information technology, I would also pay attention in high school so I can get a scholarship and not have as much in school loans
lol tmi but you asked
Rising Star
I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, but if I could go back I would’ve went into Business instead.
I would still take computer science. It made my career possible
I would have gotten a JD MBA rather than just an MBA.
Why? Would you have gone to be a lawyer or worked in legal and compliance?
Or what would you have done with the JD that guy can't do now with just an MBA?
Applied Math
I wish I was smart enough for this, I would go this route too
Anything in STEM, I personally see a lot of jobs that require engineering or data science backgrounds. When I was younger, I would have pursued my Astrophysics or Plasma Physics degree, but I never finished college and ended up getting a gig doing IT Project Management, and went down that path. I don’t regret it, but Covid has screwed up everything, and I lost my consulting client of 15 years. Now, I wish I had the educational background to pivot into a scientific or research career. I interviewed for several positions I was well qualified for at Lawrence Livermore Lab, and probably wasn’t offered a role due to the lack of specific education or experience in a lab/scientific setting. I keep trying though, I currently have 3 apps with hiring managers at NASA. So you never know. Also, if you just need to gain the knowledge, OpenCourseWare MIT has everything you need. Most of the time, I have found that as long as you know what you’re talking about, a degree isn’t always necessary. I have gotten by for 30 years without one.
If I didn’t have to worry about money I’d probably go into hospitality or agricultural science. Cornell has good programs for either of these. Alas, I was born middle class so I got an accounting major at a state school and went into finance
Accounting *degree
Got a degree in electrical engineering. Great choice. Maybe would have gotten a degree in computer science, or computer engineering. If you want to live in certain areas, you could go chemical engineering or petroleum engineering.
Not hypothetical for me. I went back to school while working at Fidelity because I regretted the options available to me in Finance. I got a degree in Computer Science and my life is so much better for it. Whatever you do, you need to enjoy the work.
Chief
Interior design or food science
Computer science I would like to study . I did not get chance to study it but with ChatGPT I m fulfilling my dream however small ways I can . Other is Mathematics , if not then Finance , if not then Physics . I want to be somehow connected to maths.
Perhaps something in medicine.
I'd become a surgeon.
Electrical engineering
Accounting
Information Security hands down, the market is flush with this career path
I would take a program related to medical field.
I would have gotten an Bachelors in either: 1) Business 2) Communications or 3) Psychology. I would have then gotten an MBA after.
This would have opened up more doors for me in the past, I think. Those majors are all transferrable across any field of work.
Here's a link to help you decide:
https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0711/the-college-degrees-you-should-have-gotten.aspx#:~:text=STEM%20(science%2C%20technology%2C%20engineering,and%20a%20more%20lucrative%20career.s a
Terrible advice.
Business is one of the easiest degrees to attain.
I will reiterate, Engineering all the way and MBA for business acumen after.
Now with AI, going to be a lot of jobs going bye bye.
Water and electricity will soon be problems all around the world and Engineering is what will solve those problems.
Me I just would have taken my education much more seriously